Board of Directors

Nicollette Daly, CPA

Nicollette uses her many years of business experience and expertise to provide finance, accounting, and administrative education and support to individuals, small businesses, and non-profit entities through her consulting firm, Nicollette Daly Consulting.  

After spending a decade in operations management in California, Nicollette followed her passion for accounting.  She earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Accounting from the Dhaliwal Reidy School of Accountancy at the University of Arizona and received her Certified Public Accountant license shortly thereafter. During her time as a public accountant, one of her focus areas was nonprofit audit and taxation. She eventually left public accounting to become the nonprofit's Chief Financial Officer. She spent the next 13 years as a nonprofit CFO and eventually started her consulting business.   

Nicollette also enjoys teaching and has presented many topics as a lecturer and speaker in various capacities. She taught CPA exam study courses for Becker Professional Education and recently became an adjunct lecturer at the University of Arizona.  

She earned a Certificate in Non-Profit Executive Leadership from the ASU Lodestar Center and graduated from the Greater Tucson Leadership program. Nicollette also has a certificate in Human Resource Management and Supervision. 

Nicollette has served on many boards and currently serves as the Chair of the Advisory Board for the Eller School of Accountancy. She is a member of the Board of Trustees and past Chair of the Investment Committee for the Community Foundation of Southern Arizona (CFSA) and Board member for the Financial Executives and Affiliates of Tucson (FEAT). She volunteers regularly, especially at UA, where she enjoys mentoring the next generation of business leaders. 

She has won many awards for her volunteer and leadership roles, including being honored as Community Member of the Year by the Eller College African American Honorary. She had the distinct privilege of serving as an Honorary Commander at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.  

Accounting runs in her family: her mother recently retired from a career in accounting, while her brother also received an accounting degree from Dahliwahl-Reidy and serves as a CFO.   

Nicollette loves music, traveling, crafting, and cooking. You can often find her reading true crime or watching The Twilight Zone or The Simpsons. She and her husband, Mike, moved to Tucson from San Francisco in 2005. They live with their smashed-faced dogs, Louis and Lola.